Wu wei 無為: Acting Without Forcing (Ad Fontes Book 1) (English Edition) odf de graça baixar
por Guglielmo Poli
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Descrição do livro
Wu wei is not resilience. It is not letting go. In the Chinese texts wu wei answers a precise question: how do you govern without ruining what you govern. In the version that circulates today it answers a different one: how do I feel better without wearing myself out. Those are two questions, and the second one is much smaller. This book puts the word back inside its own language and its own history. It reads the two characters for what they actually say, follows wu wei through the Laozi, the Zhuangzi, the Confucians, the Legalists and the Huainanzi, and then reconstructs, name by name and with dates, the English-language chain that carried the term from James Legge's 1891 non-action to Alan Watts, to the wellness shelf, to the phrase "go with the flow". What emerges is more interesting than a mistranslation. English had the good renderings early - not-forcing, effortless action, non-coercive action - and kept the poor one, because the poor one could be understood without explanation. Along the way: why the cook in the Zhuangzi slows down at the hard place, and what that does to the equation of wu wei with flow; why the Huainanzi was already refuting the lazy-sage reading in 139 BCE, in a book that has been available in complete English translation since 2010; and a full-length engagement with Edward Slingerland, the scholar who brought the paradox back to the centre. EVERY CLAIM CARRIES A MARK No exercises. No five-step protocol. An appendix of the twenty-four passages the argument rests on, in Chinese with facing translation, and a working guide to the editions, so that every sentence in this book can be checked against a paperback you can buy. Ad Fontes is a series of short monographs that take one word back to its sources. Volume one of ten.
TEXT - attested in the ancient sources, with a precise reference.
OPEN PHILOLOGY - reading, dating or attribution disputed among scholars.
READING - a modern reading, always attributed, with year and work.
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